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Uładzimier Arłou in 2010 Uładzimir Arłou's signature. Uładzimir Arłou, known as U. A. Arlou (Belarusian: Уладзімір Аляксеевіч Арлоў, Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Орлов, romanized: Vladimir Aljakseevich Orlov; born 25 August 1953 in Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian historian, writer, politician, and poet. [1]
In western Belarus, under Polish control until World War II, Byelorussia became commonly used in the regions of Białystok and Grodno. [10] Upon the establishment of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1920, the term Byelorussia (its names in other languages such as English being based on the Russian form) was only used officially.
On the other hand, the left, called the ablasnikami [d] and made up of delegates from the Belarusian Socialist Assembly and Eastern Belorussia, sought temporary confederation with Russia as a more realistic alternative within the context of World War I and widespread poverty in Belarus. At the Congress' conclusion, a compromise was reached.
The territory of modern-day Belarus was split by the treaty into Western Belorussia ruled by the Polish and the Soviet Eastern Belorussia, with the border town in Mikaszewicze. [9] [10] Notably, the peace treaty was signed with the full active participation of the Belarusian delegation on the Soviet side. [11]
Belarusian organizations never had administrative control over the territory of Belarus. The real power was held by the German civil and military administrations. The collaborationist Belarusian Central Council, presenting itself as a Belarusian governmental body, was formed in Minsk a few months before Belarus was retaken by the Soviet Army.
A United Nations panel of human rights experts called on Belarus to release the Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder of the country's most respected rights group, who has been behind bars for three ...
From 1992 to 2008, teams of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, pastors, lawyers, business people and others traveled to Belarus, which is surrounded by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia ...
Thereafter, modern Belarus' territory was split between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia during the Peace of Riga in 1921. The latter created the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , which was reunited with Western Belarus during World War 2 and lasted until the dissolution of the Soviet Union , which was ended by the Belovezh ...